Articles in Engineering 2024
PET bottle filled with water and bleach, refracts sunlight to illuminate Did you ever think that the empty PET soft drink bottles you throw can actually brighten homes and light up people’s lives? Yes, you read that right. A slum just behind IIT Delhi, Munirka, where even sunlight inside homes seems to be a luxury, […]
The RBSE proposal for an aptitude test has raised a lot of eyebrows among different players in the engineering education field. The first part of this series threw light on the dilemma of professors and students regarding the issue. In this part, we bring another important aspect into picture, namely – the coaching institutes in Rajasthan. Students […]
There are several situations of collisions in rigid body dynamics on which different problems are framed. In such cases we need to conserve angular momentum of the system about a point with respect to which the net external torque on the body is zero. The most important thing in such cases is to locate a […]
In a nation that’s jam packed with people, in a population of 120 crores, you see an engineer passing out in every nook and corner nowadays. Approximately 1.5 million engineers pass out every year in India. Then how can one expect each of them to turn out to be the next rising star of the […]
The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a project funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), is in the last few weeks of the third and final phase. Though amongst the ‘Most Viewed Educational Channel‘ on YouTube, the rural populace seems to be far from making the best use of it, resulting in it being beneficial […]
Just yesterday, IIT Bombay released a report saying that this year the state-wise highest intake of students in IITs was from Rajasthan. In parallel to this, the RBSE (Raj Board of Secondary Education) has been mulling over a proposal to manage the number of students opting for science in class XI through an aptitude test. […]
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, hosted a conference of all 31 NITs, called Co-NIT Meet 2015, which was held last week and was attended by over 100 delegates including deans and directors of the NITs. India Education Diary reports that the major themes of discussion were: – Reforms in NIT Governance, – Enabling teaching […]
The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune has invited applications for the posts of Post Doctoral Research Associate and Project Assistant. The details of the vacancies are as follows: Post Doctoral Research Associate No. of vacancies: 01 Essential Qualifications: Candidates must possess Ph.D in Physics in the area of nonlinear dynamics from a […]
Tests and Exams are an integral part of a student’s life. Here is a guide to coping up and dealing with ‘exam stress’- notwithstanding the test preparedness of a student. We would like you to absorb and incorporate these invaluable tips at the earliest possible in your student life – as the techniques listed herewith […]
Nearly 129 coaching institutes that dot the city of Kota have been demanding that the Government of Rajasthan recognise them as ‘junior colleges’. This however seems to be stuck in a limbo, as the government doesn’t have a mechanism/policy in place to provide such recognition. “Coaching institutes have put forth their demand to the Government […]